Example sentences of "that he [verb] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 2 | Sid was keeping a close eye on Mr Didier ; not that he thought anyone would try to poison him , but you never knew , when the likes of Peckham were around . |
| 3 | His grin suggested that he thought I 'd trade in my TI notebook for some new whizz-bang offering . |
| 4 | If Vincent had rejected a place on the scheme , then it was certain that he thought it would fail . |
| 5 | Asked for his views on the future of the offensive , the Crown Prince said , however , that he thought it should continue . |
| 6 | Erm , we are today , going to do the Black Sheep of the Family , erm , because erm , erm , does n't feel that he he 's up to doing the one that he thought he would do this week . |
| 7 | At first he gave the somewhat fatuous explanation that he thought he would find it easier to ride his bicycle without his testicle ( the other testicle was small due to atrophy ) . |
| 8 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 9 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 10 | To Dennis 's in the sense that he thought he could act as team-boss without regard for Niki ; to Niki 's in that he thought his personal world outweighed Dennis 's and the team 's . |
| 11 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 12 | IN HIS speech to the House of Commons debate on the Draft Appropriation No 2 ( Northern Ireland ) Order , in July , DUP leader , the Rev. Ian Paisley welcomed the appointment of Sir John Wheeler as NIO Security Minister adding that he hoped he would bring the benefit of his experience in prisons to bear . |
| 13 | In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches . |
| 14 | When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken ! |
| 15 | On the first anniversary of the return to civilian rule President Shehu Shagari vigorously condemned party bickering in the papers and said that he hoped it would end . |
| 16 | In his speech at the National Botanical Gardens in Washington , Clinton made only passing reference to efforts to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to a cabinet-level Department of the Environment , saying that he hoped it would happen ‘ soon , by the grace of Congress ’ . |
| 17 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 18 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 19 | Two years previously he had wanted to hit back at fate for the death of his three cousins ; now he was so joyful that he felt he must compensate in this sacrificial way . |
| 20 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 21 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 22 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 23 | There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say . |
| 24 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 25 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 26 | It was astonishing that he knew he could do it . |
| 27 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 28 | I could take it and Barry knew that I knew that he knew I could take it . |
| 29 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 30 | In this ague-altered state Wallace perceived the whole symphony of evolutionary change with such immediacy that he feared it would escape him like a dream before he could write it down . |